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Have a smart phone or tablet, download the free Viggle app and start earning rewards for watching DIRECTV. Works much like Shazam in that it does an audio fingerprint of what you are watching. Available for free at the App Store for iOS or Google Play for Android devices.

DIRECTV customers will receive extra bonus Viggle points (for select shows) that customers from other television providers are not eligible for. Might as well start earning something for watching TV anyway. Doesn't cost anything and you're essentially paid to watch television. The NFL Sunday Ticket games this weekend will be eligible for bonus points, as will some Premium programming this weekend.

Some of the trivia they have via Viggle Live during certain shows is rather fun and an easy way to earn additional points.

USE PROMO CODE "DIRECTV" if you are new to Viggle to earn a signup bonus.

For those of you that have already been "viggling" prior to today, make sure you start to authenticate with the app by going into your settings menu and reselecting your TV provider. It will ask you to link your DIRECTV account. This is the only way to be eligible for DIRECTV bonus points by going through the authentication process.

Thank you for the code. Signed up, worked. Interesting product. If people want to pay me for watching tv, by all means do it.

Did a little research on this product and looks like Robert Sillerman's idea. He of LiveNation, Elvis Presley Estate, American Idol fame.

Yup, that's the guy.

I've earned a few free Starbucks drinks and I'm on my way to a MacBook right now...going to take awhile but earning points is pretty easy. Earned a bunch during the Monday Night Football game last night playing their MyGuy game within the Viggle app.

I downloaded and play with this app on Thursday during the football game. I played the MyGuy game during the game and won. It's said congrats you won... which was suppose to give me +1000 points. Never got them, sent and e-mail to Viggle which says that will get back to me in 72 hrs. I still have not heard back from them. Seems like a waste if the app is not going to work :-(

Well, I thought this Viggle might be kind of lame, but its actually not bad. Since I signed up on 9/8, I have accumulated over 14,000 points. More then enough for $5 debit card at CVS or Starbucks and almost half way to a $15 Chili's card.

When watching NFL games that I'm normally not that interested in, the "My Guy" fantasy football competition helps hold my interest. I'm not much of a fantasy football player, since it typically involves too much time. This game is just play whenever you feel like it. Then just picking one player per play and playing against 9 other random opponents. With a chance to win and receive 1000 points.

To earn other points, when you watch a TV program or game, you simply tap the screen. It listens to the sound from the TV and then checks you in. Then it accumulates points, until you check in for something else. Or at the end of the length of time the program lasts, it will check you out and give you your points total.

Some programs have bonuses up to 200 points. And it gives you the programs that will earn bonuses that day and a couple days in advance. So you can just tune in, get your bonus points and then change the channel to something you want to watch. If you watch a 15 sec commercial, up to 75 points earned (I should say, play a 30 second commercial, while you watch something else).

I've participated in other programs before that tracked viewership, so it's not totally foreign.

Should be interesting.

Good for you! Hope you enjoy it.

And for tracking viewership, its easier then filling out the old diaries they had years ago. And even DIRECTV tracks viewership, if you don't opt out. And their results may be a bit off with what I do. If I see a high bonus show listed, I tune to it, check in and let it run.

Viggle will accumulate points, until the show ends. So you can then be watching something else. So their viewership numbers may be a bit skewed. And by the way, you can back out of Viggle and use other apps while its active. Just don't log out of it.

I've earned a few free Starbucks drinks and I'm on my way to a MacBook right now...going to take awhile but earning points is pretty easy. Earned a bunch during the Monday Night Football game last night playing their MyGuy game within the Viggle app.

Looks like the awards must change from time to time. I don't see an award for a MacBook. I do see an IPod and AppleTv.

Also, could not find the App from the Itunes App store, ended up going to the viggle website and linking from there.

Correct, the rewards change from time to time. Think of it as if they have an inventory of items and if they sell out or the sponsor of those items (Apple, Best Buy, etc) changes then those rewards can change. Some have been very constant, some change. I've redeemed a few thus far and I'm sitting on 25k+ right now....got some nice points tonight with Family Guy plus the in show trivia, Simpsons, Homeland and Dexter.

With a weekend of NFL Sunday ticket, winning a My Guy, catching several bonuses, running advertisements, I'm now over 20k+. And as mentioned, My Guy fantasy football does occasionally have some glitches, but most of the time it works fine.

With a weekend of NFL Sunday ticket, winning a My Guy, catching several bonuses, running advertisements, I'm now over 20k+. And as mentioned, My Guy fantasy football does occasionally have some glitches, but most of the time it works fine.

Since there are only 10 players per My Guy game, I'm sure the chances of us ending up actually playing against each other are miniscule. Although I'll be ready to take you on during tonight's Cards vs Rams Thursday night game!

Since there are only 10 players per My Guy game, I'm sure the chances of us ending up actually playing against each other are miniscule. Although I'll be ready to take you on during tonight's Cards vs Rams Thursday night game!

had I known you were the one trouncing everyone, I would have just folded.